Kerry James Marshall Quotes

It's the silence I imagine in the rest of the world, the silence of an endless ocean and uninhabitable island, a silence that can be seen from space.

It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft roar of the waves.

I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything.

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

Being alone on the moors is scary; as the rain clouds settle in, it makes you realise your place in nature.

O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.

I would wake up in Moscow or somewhere else, my heart beating fast, feeling bitter and helpless.

When I walked out of the seminary, I was 31, but I was like a scared, frightened kid. I had no place to live, no license, no clothes. I was just a lost soul.

It's often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear.

I felt vulnerable and very much between friends. I remember walking down the hallway and thinking I had no way of knowing what was coming, literally. This wasn't because I had some horrific bullying story, but because of a steady drip of negativity.

I can't imagine anything worse than being just left alone, scared out of your mind.

Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!

The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness.

There's nothing that scares me more than, like, being in the ocean by myself.

Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.

Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.

The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.

The 'Burials' title really speaks to all the different levels that are on the record. It speaks to silence and panic and anxiety and loss of self and isolation and those different levels of hiding.

The desert feels Irish in a way - lonely and barren.

Emptiness will always cripple me.

Wyoming - God bless you in Wyoming - it's very boring, and it's the most isolated place on Earth.

The desert is an ocean in which no oar is dipped.

I go out there. I'm out there every day. [Pause] There is nothing out there.

What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of it, and the stark awareness I had of being, for the first time in my life, entirely alone, a Crusoe shipwrecked and stranded in the limitless wastes of a boundless and indifferent ocean.

Certainly on the vast windy plain, there was plenty of nothing to be looked at.